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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28

People

Arturo Armando Molina age 49
President - El Salvador
Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem age 60
President - Bangladesh
Daniel Oduber Quirós age 55
President - Costa Rica
Rudolf Gnägi age 59
President - Switzerland
Ellis Clarke age 58
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Sergej Kraigher age 62
President - Slovenia
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro age 46
President - Honduras
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 63
King - Saudi Arabia
Nicolaas Diederichs age 73
State President - South Africa
Lee Kuan Yew age 53
Prime Minister - Singapore
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 48
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Süleyman Demirel age 52
Prime Minister - Turkey
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 60
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Pierre Trudeau age 57
Prime Minister - Canada
Paul Biya age 43
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Mário Soares age 52
Prime Minister - Portugal
Bruno Kreisky age 65
Chancellor - Austria
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 69
Prime Minister - Greece
Malcolm Fraser age 46
Prime Minister - Australia
Abdou Diouf age 41
Prime Minister - Senegal
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 41
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Choi Kyu-hah age 57
Prime Minister - South Korea
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 50
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Gaston Thorn age 48
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Michael Somare age 40
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 50
Prime Minister - Sweden
Leo Tindemans age 54
Prime Minister - Belgium
Anker Jørgensen age 54
Prime Minister - Denmark
Ange-Félix Patassé age 39
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Joop den Uyl age 57
Prime Minister - Netherlands
France-Albert René age 41
Prime Minister - Seychelles
Dom Mintoff age 60
Prime Minister - Malta
Mehmet Shehu age 63
Prime Minister - Albania
Odvar Nordli age 49
Prime Minister - Norway
Tufuga Efi age 38
Prime Minister - Samoa
Michael Manley age 52
Prime Minister - Jamaica
George Cadle Price age 57
Premier - Belize
Martti Miettunen age 69
Prime Minister - Finland
Kamisese Mara age 56
Prime Minister - Fiji
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 76
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Forbes Burnham age 53
Prime Minister - Guyana
Thanin Kraiwichian age 49
Prime Minister - Thailand
Manea Mănescu age 60
Prime Minister - Romania
Miguel Trovoada age 39
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Hussein Onn age 54
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Geir Hallgrímsson age 51
Prime Minister - Iceland
Eric Williams age 65
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 52
Prime Minister - Guinea
Rashid Karami age 54
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Lynden Pindling age 46
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
György Lázár age 52
Prime Minister - Hungary
Henck Arron age 40
Prime Minister - Suriname
Tulsi Giri age 50
Prime Minister - Nepal
Francisco Mendes age 37
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Robert Muldoon age 55
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Hedi Amara Nouira age 65
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Mudar Badran age 42
Prime Minister - Jordan
Rashidi Kawawa age 50
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Eric Gairy age 54
Prime Minister - Grenada
Ahmed Osman age 46
Prime Minister - Morocco
Lopo do Nascimento age 36
Prime Minister - Angola
Tom Adams age 45
Prime Minister - Barbados
Léon Mébiame age 42
Prime Minister - Gabon
Patrick John age 38
Premier - Dominica
Walter Kieber age 45
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Tu'i Pelehake age 54
Prime Minister - Tonga
Abdessalam Jalloud age 31
Prime Minister - Libya
Maphevu Dlamini age 54
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 60
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Peter Colotka age 51
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Édouard Nzambimana age 30
Prime Minister - Burundi
Abdallah Mohamed age 26
Prime Minister - Comoros
Elijah Mudenda age 49
Prime Minister - Zambia
Marko Orlandić age 46
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Guillermo Arbulú Galliani age 55
Prime Minister - Peru
Adolfo Suárez age 44
Prime Minister - Spain
John Kerr age 62
Governor-General - Australia
Florizel Glasspole age 67
Governor-General - Jamaica
Milo Butler age 70
Governor-General - The Bahamas
John Guise age 62
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 15
Donald Trump age 30
Michael Jackson age 18
Vladimir Putin age 24
Ronald Reagan age 65
Nelson Mandela age 58
George W. Bush age 30
Charlie Chaplin age 87
Bill Gates age 21
Pope Francis age 39
Steve Jobs age 21
Bill Clinton age 30
Angela Merkel age 22
Neil Armstrong age 46
François Hollande age 22
Elvis Presley age 41
John Paul II age 56
Gabriel García Márquez age 49
Mikhail Gorbachev age 45
Elon Musk age 5
Stephen Hawking age 34
Jean-Paul Sartre age 71
Jimmy Carter age 52
Benedict XVI age 49
Mother Teresa age 66
Hillary Clinton age 29
Kamala Harris age 12
Nicolas Sarkozy age 21
Richard Nixon age 63
Xi Jinping age 23
Naruhito age 16
Hugo Chávez age 22
Simone de Beauvoir age 68
Muammar Gaddafi age 34
John Lennon age 36
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 22
Muhammad Ali age 34
Kofi Annan age 38
Charles III age 28
Osama bin Laden age 19
Lech Wałęsa age 33
Leo XIV age 21
Diego Maradona age 16
Narendra Modi age 26
Rafael Correa age 13
Aung San Suu Kyi age 31
Benjamin Netanyahu age 27
Dmitry Medvedev age 11
14th Dalai Lama age 41
Silvio Berlusconi age 40
Shinzo Abe age 22
Bob Marley age 31
Tim Berners-Lee age 21
Mahathir Mohamad age 51
Boris Yeltsin age 45
Ali Khamenei age 37
Jacques Chirac age 44
Guillermo Lasso age 21
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 58
Alexander Lukashenko age 22
Tony Blair age 23
Yasser Arafat age 47
David Cameron age 10
Linus Torvalds age 6
Ban Ki-moon age 32
Boris Johnson age 12
Diana, Princess of Wales age 15
Bashar al-Assad age 11
Benazir Bhutto age 23
Jair Bolsonaro age 21
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 31
Theresa May age 20
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 20
Václav Havel age 40
Justin Trudeau age 4
Nicolás Maduro age 14
Robert Mugabe age 52
Hosni Mubarak age 48
Golda Meir age 78
Dilma Rousseff age 28
Al Gore age 28
François Mitterrand age 60
Milton Friedman age 64
Ruhollah Khomeini age 74
Valentina Tereshkova age 39
Ilham Aliyev age 14
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 38
António Guterres age 27
Akihito age 42
Helmut Kohl age 46
Rosa Parks age 63
Gordon Brown age 25
Shimon Peres age 53
John Paul I age 64
Olaf Scholz age 18
Keir Starmer age 14
Willy Brandt age 63
Gerhard Schröder age 32
Hassan Rouhani age 28
Hu Jintao age 33
Evo Morales age 17
Joko Widodo age 15
Petro Poroshenko age 11
Mikheil Saakashvili age 8
Liz Truss age 1
Ursula von der Leyen age 18
Mike Pence age 17
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 23
Michelle Bachelet age 25
Ariel Sharon age 48
Felipe VI of Spain age 8
Desmond Tutu age 45
Viktor Yanukovych age 26
Mohamed Morsi age 25
Viktor Orbán age 13
Sergio Mattarella age 35
Manmohan Singh age 44
Pervez Musharraf age 33
Yuri Andropov age 62
Julia Gillard age 15